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...ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt to hostilities and a negotiated settlement...
...Nkomo, 64, plays the outgoing but wily politico, while Mugabe, 58, is an austere, scholarly man. In Zimbabwe's first elections in 1980, Mugabe trounced Nkomo, but nonetheless initially named his opponent Minister of Home Affairs. The honeymoon ended last February when Mugabe charged Nkomo with plotting to overthrow his government and sacked...
News of the violence has hurt Mugabe's efforts to attract foreign investments. Twice in the past month, guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Marxist government of neighboring Mozambique blew up a pipeline that fed essential supplies of oil to Zimbabwe from the Mozambican port city of Beira. As a result, streets and highways in Zimbabwe are now largely deserted, many workers stay home, and motorists who insist on filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from...
...addition to their ineffective press conference, the F.D.N. received another setback last week: the House of Representatives voted, 411 to 0, to bar the CIA from using funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. The Senate is scheduled to consider the bill this week. There is a loophole in the measure, however, that may make it only a symbolic gesture: the CIA could claim that it is using funds not for the purpose of toppling the Sandinistas but of stopping the flow of arms into El Salvador...
...seemed unlikely that Mugabe would have Smith arrested unless ironclad evidence could be found that the white leader was plotting to overthrow the government. Responding to Smith's charges, Mugabe observed: "I don't know whether Smith is qualified to speak about freedom. Those of us who were in detention and tortured cannot say." It was a pointed reminder that under the Smith regime Mugabe had spent ten years in prison...